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...When someone isn't around all the time, there can be a problem of attaching an ideal to what they really are," Morrell added...
...that perhaps, if we could change the way it is administered, it would be a desirable method of crime control. However, it is not the potential for racial bias or the risk that people on death row may actually be innocent that makes capital punishment a less than ideal method of crime prevention. Nor is it the fact that we know that capital punishment is not useful as a deterrent. Rather, what states like Michigan and Massachusetts have recognized is that the death penalty is itself inherently unjust and wrong...
...because I'm very stringent, very stringent on pants. Pants have to be exactly what I want. These actually, I don't know, I'm hoping I lost a little weight but I don't think so--they really don't fit as well as they used to. The ideal pant for me is tight at the top and they should always cover your shoes. If you're wearing flat shoes, like for sneakers, I have different pants, they have to have huge bells. And if they're high shoes, they should be smaller bells. I found four pairs...
...would be ideal if we could raise maybe $5,000," she says...
...presidency isn't Gilgamesh, of course, but once upon a time, Americans entertained a subconscious ideal of a president with a Shackleton dimension. We somehow expected a hero and grown-up, even if we almost never got one, and even if a hero - Douglas MacArthur, say - wouldn't always have been such a good idea...